Too many hobbies, not enough focus
All of my Macs are technically part of the Mac Museum, but only the Macs that physically reside in it truly meet the criteria (i.e. are relatively old and no longer in active use). Thus it was an exciting/sad day a couple of weeks ago when Sally's 24" iMac moved down to the basement to join …
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Aside from not making a lot of sense since Apple just changed the screen size of the iPhone, this has to be one of the most horrible product names I've ever heard of, even if it's internal. http://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/20/apple-rumored-to-debut-4-8-inch-iphone-math-in-june/
I look in a variety of places for additions to the Mac Museum – eBay, Craigslist, FreeCycle, other online venues, friends, yard sales, local thrift stores – but sometimes I find things in places I'd never think of, like the Dover Recycling Center. I went there yesterday to drop off a printer and a case …
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It should have been famous because it was the first PowerPC PowerBook but the 5300 was instead famous for a string of manufacturing and quality issues that gave it one of the worst reputations of any Apple product. Despite its flaws it still made improvements over its predecessor in the form of larger screens with …
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Once upon a time I purchased a working original Macintosh and Mac Plus for the Mac Museum. They came with a large device that was said to be a "modem" but didn't have a phone jack on it. After being unable to figure out how to connect this odd device to a phone line, I …
It's been a while since I published another article in my series chronicling the history of the PowerBook, but here it is: the 500 series. Released in 1994, the 500 series used an entirely new design full of curves an innovative features such as stereo speakers, a trackpad, dual batteries, and built-in networking. It was …
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Apple held its "A Little More to Show You" event yesterday and with it introduced five new and updated products – an updated Mac mini, a brand new iMac, a 13" version of the Retina MacBook Pro, an updated iPad, and the much rumored iPad mini. The Mac mini The mini receives basically a hardware …
I've finally had a chance to update all of my Mac Museum hardware pages with all of the models that I currently own. I had been waiting until I had a photo and detailed description of each model before posting it but that was taking too long. Instead I've decided that having an image and …
Every now and then you find a truly great deal and boy did I find one this week. I happened to be browsing through Craigslist on Wednesday when I spotted an ad for a free Mac and display. The person was moving out of the country and wanted to get rid of it quick. I …
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Apple had its big event today to reveal the iPhone 5 and new iPods. It appears that the company has finally combined its iPhone and iPod Music events into one, moving the June iPhone announcement to October last year and September this year. It now occupies the same time frame as the original Music events …
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